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Brooklyn and Boston, Princeton and Montclair heard the polished periods of Newton Diehl Baker. His refrain: "The Hawley-Smoot tariff was conceived in sin and born in iniquity." He charged that with this law the Republicans declared economic war on the rest of the world...
...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...
Promises v. Policies. With what he called a "collection of dull facts," Campaigner Hoover sought to prove that Governor Roosevelt's castigations of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff were based on ignorance, misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations. He ridiculed his opponent's suggestion of a "nest egg" for public works. "It will doubtless surprise him to learn that the eggs have not only been laid but have hatched." At length he recited his relief measures which, he said,"speak louder than any promises" Hoover boasts...
Governor Roosevelt Al Smith Vice President Curtis Bernarr Macfadden Speaker Garner Mrs. Roosevelt & children Theodore Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan James Aloysius Farley Theodore Roosevelt Jr. William Gibbs McAdoo Samuel Instill William Randolph Hearst Senator Reed Smoot The Forgotten Man Senator Huey Long Eugene Meyer Vincent Astor Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole Eddie Dowling James John Walker Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin Samuel Seabury John Francis Curry Secretary of Treasury Mills John H. McCooey General Douglas MacArthur Secretary of War Hurley
...combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers of dark tobacco in his State...